C# Nested Classes, Clean up Declaration

Question

Hello, Is there a way in C# to tidy up the following class declaration?

namespace Application.Namespace
{
    public class MasterClass
    {
        public class FlyingSaucer
        {
            public class Rotator
            {
                public class Cube
                {

Still maintaining the class structure, just cleaning up the declaration.

Answer 1

No - it's already pretty tidy, given that you've got 4 levels of nesting.

But you almost certainly shouldn't have 4 levels of nesting to start with. Why would you want to do that? You've got a class named subClass1 which isn't a subclass by the normal meaning (i.e. derived from another specific class; subClass1 is only derived from object.)

Nesting classes is fairly rare - I don't think I've ever seen even three levels of nesting, let alone four. Why do you think this is a good idea?

Answer 2

it looks like you are confusing inheritance with sub classes.

sub classing is usually fairly rare.

Answer 3

Are there any relationship between

FlyingSaucer -- >Rotator -- >Cube , i am thinking about it is a typical example of Containment.

FlyingSaucer Contains Rotator and Rotator Contains Cube.

so if that is the case , you may consider using Composition by creating properties of Rotator and Cube in FlyingSaucer.

You can inject these dependencies while creating an object FlyingSaucer. This will remove the very deep nesting in your classes and i think , you probably need to access objects of FlyingSaucer , Rotator , Cube from your master class.

so use Composition here it will really make your class hierarchy simpler and easy to extend and maintain.